How to tell a Succulent GHOST vs GHOSTY

is this a ghost plant no it's mexican giant is this a ghost plant that looks very ghostly to me no it's an echeveria kante well is this a ghost plant no it's pacquiveria powder puff it's also white and very ghostly looking what about that one is that a ghost plant yes it's a very very big ghost plant this is graptopetalum paraguayensi hello there my name is liz a self-confessed succulent addict welcome to my channel growing succulents [Music] the leaves on this one so let's take one of the biggest longest backs the ones in the back the backus is about three inches long but probably three and a half inches long and the whole plant itself looked my hand and it's just wrong time of the day to do a video but it doesn't matter so this one is quite a big plan so it's almost like eight inches across from the widest point of the leaf to the from tip to the other tip so these ones here are graptopetalum paraguayensi that are growing in this pot and even this one is quite big so this is afternoon sun it's hitting it and you can see that it's sort of green basically when there's no sun that is the color of what it looks like and on the other side here the biggest one of course so basically that's what happens but of course when the sun's shining against it there you go it looks very similar to a ghosty so that's probably where the confusion comes in grab to see them ghosty okay gonna move it over here is a smaller plant overall so that is paraguayensi and that one on the right is ghosty so this one on the left the ghost is still bigger than the ghostie on the right so this is grab the petal paraguayancy here like grown small because it's in a pot but now if you put it next to grab the sedum ghosty you can really tell the difference that this one is paraguayensi and the one on the right is ghosty grab the sedum ghosty actually looks prettier to me anyway it looks prettier than the kraptopetalum paraguayensi ghost plant so ghost plant ghosty the same shape and the leaves is as thick as well as a small grown ghost plant so that's why okay if i'm gonna go on the side here so you can see the leaves it's it's the same it's basically the same size so it just depends how it's grown and if you grow [Music] so these arrangements here or these plants that are in here all look very ghostly to me can you tell which is which which one is which because there's a few different ones there's about four different types of ghostly looking plants in here so this one here which to me looks more ghostlia uh ghostly yes or all of them this is graptoveria tricolor so it's beautiful the it's more like white very porcelain looking so these ones are the same plant but this one is older than that one so i'll just take this out hang on don't come off okay the one on the right is a younger plant and the one on the left which is this one is an older plant so they're the same they're the same grub to vary a tricolor but yet it looks like different plants based on the shape you can tell that it's the same plant but because of the age they look somewhat different the one on the left is much prettier this is a chivalria silverstar that looks very similar to grub to varia tri-color because the center is also pink and the overall leaf coloration is very much the same as this tri color now this tri color is more pink compared to just hang on i just get this out so this is still the one on the right is still a pretty young tri color as the tri color gets older it looks more pink like this one on the left more beautiful but this one on the right is still pretty young so this on the left is about hang on well there you go so grab the very tricolor the 16th of november 2018 so that would be almost three years hang on around two years and four months and this one is a younger one this one on the left is a year and a half old but the difference in the color is that this is more beautiful grab the petal and paraguayancy goes plant so this is a pot grown with less soil it will become more compact but if planted with a lot of soil even though this is a inner part because of the bottom of the pot is quite large or it's a fat big belly pot that it bellies out that's why the plant has more access to water so even though it's planted in a small neck pot you think it's only have a bit of soil but it has a lot of soil and that's why the plant is big now this one on the other side that's why it's super big because it's planted in this pot with access to a lot of soil now this one here are the compact plants this is graptoveria this is a cowless scrapto variacalis and this acalis is very pink if i compare this with the ghost plant she's also like a ghost plait but the color looks like a cross between paraguayensi and try color but you can see that the shape of the leaves are different to the tri color she's just a little bit skinny compared to the tri color so this is where the confusion comes in since there's so many different plants that look similar so that is the problem so here in australia most people take for granted at the ghost plant or grab the petal paraguayensi plant because she's very fast growing and so easy to look after she basically can grow from a leaf or cutting but it grows fastest with cutting so this one here i basically started with three cuttings so let's take a peek so there's one two three three plants that i planted here and there are two single uh and these two are still single and the other one so this is the oldest one of this group that's the mommy of the group now she has babies so coming from just one stem cutting three or all together has now become four plants these two are both ghost plant but you can see they both look different these are the growth differences the pink one lives on top it's about five o'clock in the afternoon and she's still getting some sun and this one in the bottom that's why she's green because she's not getting any sun she only gets sun in the afternoon this other one experiences morning sun midday sun and afternoon sun and this in the bottom only experiences partial midday sun and afternoon sun now i'm gonna take this and compare it to the ghostie and you're gonna say that this that this paraguayans ghost plant on the right is a ghosty now this ghosty once it's matured eventually it the look will change now this ghosty once mature will look similar to now the one in the bottom is ghosty so so pink and so fat now the one on top is still green because it's still young so we're gonna compare when it's old and grown in the full sun and open to the element it turns pink but this green one the big plant is in the baby plant now the pink one is about four years old so that's the difference between ghost and ghostly this one is said a very lady gray she also looks like a tri color but slightly different because she's a little bit fatter so that is why since there's so much variety of hybrids it's hard to tell and this ghosty i have to put it back here so that where i put this cozy she hardly gets any direct sunlight now this ghost plant here belongs to this spot over here so it gets morning sun midday sun but no afternoon sun so it really depends where you put your plant as to the look of your ghost or ghosty and this blueish looking tricolor will go back to its shady spot she hardly gets any sun in here and this really pink one belongs in here i'll just take this other plant here this is where she grows and that's why she's so pink because she gets plenty of direct sunlight and this machete will have to go back here so that's it i hope i gave you some idea with regards to the differences of ghost plant or ghost or ghosty but for me personally if i have to choose between ghosts or ghosty for me i prefer the most beautiful ghosts of all now wait a minute i think it's the kante but then again this is prettier because it's fat wait a minute now you see where you which one are you gonna choose mexican giant or kante over there

Channel: Growing Succulents with LizK

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Length: 11min 19sec (679 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021